It's good to be back after the seasonal break and I wish all our regular blog watchers and those who visit less frequently a happy and healthy new year.
My second session of the new year, with yesterday drawing a photographic blank, although we did see a few porpoise in the choppy NE conditions.
On arrival today, twenty or so Gannets were wheeling out over the distant turbulent water we get at the start of the ebb tide. A few minutes of concentrated study showed there were Commons feeding below. At a guess I'd estimate some 20-30 over a wide area. After ten minutes or so they started moving off to the west with just a few still feeding ten minutes or so later. Closer in a pod of around 10 commons passed east to west following the now faster flowing tide.
A break of nearly an hour passed before the first Porpoise sighting with a single animal making it's way through the tide race. A marked animal I'd not seen before so another for the ID catalogue. A few more sightings over the following 20 minutes or so and that was it for this morning's tide. I hung on for another thirty minutes or so then with fingers close to frost bite I made my way home.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.